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TB Exposure Risk

CDC recommends that each healthcare organization establish a TB surveillance program
that includes healthcare workers (HCW) “working in healthcare settings who have the potential for exposure to M. tuberculosisthrough air space shared with persons with infectious TB disease”.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) TB Policy2 states that "employers must comply with the provisions of the following requirements
whenever an employee may be occupationally exposed to TB. These requirements are
further detailed in two federal government documents:

In keeping with these stipulations, a comprehensive local TB surveillance & training
program has been developed fro CAHP personnel. Details are contained within the CAHP - TB Surveillance & Training Program, which spells out student, staff, and faculty training requirements and associated
protective work practices.

Healthcare Environments

TB exposure risk is now defined by the health-care setting (see Table 1). An at-risk setting includes any area where “HCWs might share air space with persons with TB disease
or in which HCWs might be in contact with clinical specimens” [1].It is no longer characterized by facility type since multiple settings may be present
in a single facility. Traditional and nontraditional settings are similarly addressed.

High-risk category is only a temporary designation and is usually reduced to medium risk when a facility has initiated the
appropriate corrective action.

Risk Classification

CAHP personnel are initially classified into one of two exposure risk categories (see
Table 2.). TB risk categorization needs only to be accomplished once during employment
or student training unless an individual’s exposure-risk changes.

Table 2. TB exposure risk categories

Category

Description

I

Personnel involved in direct face-to-face patient contact or handling clinical samples from those patients with suspect or confirmed TB.*

II

Personnel who do not enter an at-risk TB healthcare setting as part of their student
training or employment duties.

Program participation is not required for Category II personnel. For example, patient/client treatment in a CAHP
academic department does not constitute an at-risk setting. Here, the risk of coming
into close contact with a TB-infected individual is no greater than that of encountering one in the general population (e.g., supermarket,
restaurant, etc).

Responsibilities

Individual charges for all CAHP parties are as follows:

Students & faculty/staff - familiarize him or herself with the elements of this training module & to correctly
employ them while functioning in an at-risk environment.